{"id":3366,"date":"2015-05-04T10:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2015-08-16T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T10:49:22","slug":"simpson-talk-of-the-toon-at-aspers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Simpson talk of the Toon at Aspers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The WPT National took place at Aspers Casino in Newcastle from 30 April to 3 May, with Kevin Simpson becoming the talk of the Toon after topping a 390-runner field to claim the title and \u00a324,000.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson worked his way through an impressive field that included WSOP bracelet winner Surinder Sunar, former Irish Open winner Ian Simpson and former England footballer Rob Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Despite starting out as the short stack on the final table, Simpson steered his way to a heads-up confrontation with Stephen Fung and his 5:1 chip lead proved too much for Fung to recover from, with Simpson sealing his biggest live win when his pocket queens held up against Fung&#8217;s pocket sixes.<\/p>\n<p><b>WPT Newcastle National<\/b><br \/>\n1st Kevin Simpson \u00a324,000<br \/>\n2nd Stephen Fung \u00a316,500<br \/>\n3rd Tin Sung Tang \u00a310,500<br \/>\n4th Gary Miller \u00a37,800<br \/>\n5th Brett Andrews \u00a35,900<br \/>\n6th Ben Jenkins \u00a34,900<br \/>\n7th David Knight \u00a34,000<br \/>\n8th Syed Meah \u00a33,150<br \/>\n9th Marc Foggin \u00a32,400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WPT National took place at Aspers Casino in Newcastle from 30 April to 3 May, with Kevin Simpson becoming the talk of the Toon after topping a 390-runner field to claim the title and \u00a324,000. Simpson worked his way through an impressive field that included WSOP bracelet winner Surinder Sunar, former Irish Open winner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-wpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}